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Fertility in Nepal 1981-2000 : levels, trends, and components of change

2003· article· en· W8544633 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Robert D. Retherford, Shyam Thapa

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Laryngoscope · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicInsurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersUnited States Agency for International Development
KeywordsFertilityTotal fertility rateResidenceDemographyGeographyBirth ratePopulationMarital statusQuarter (Canadian coin)SocioeconomicsFamily planningEconomicsResearch methodologySociology

Abstract

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The performance of tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy in an ambulatory setting is controversial. However, most current studies show that with adequate criteria for patient selection and careful postoperative observation, these procedures can be safely done as outpatient surgery. This study was undertaken to reassess the safety of outpatient tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy surgery and to reevaluate the current recommendations for postoperative care. A prospective study was undertaken to relate the incidence of significant complications, including hemorrhage, protracted emesis, and fever, to each postoperative hour. The study included 534 pediatric patients (age 14 or less) undergoing tonsillectomy with or without adenoidectomy. All 534 patients were observed for 5 postoperative hours, and 175 of the 534 patients were observed for 6 postoperative hours. To assess complications occurring in the first postoperative week, all attending surgeons involved in this study were asked to anonymously report the occurrence of hemorrhage, protracted emesis, and/or fever from the time of discharge through the seventh postoperative day. In this study, no complications were encountered during the fifth or sixth postoperative hours. These results indicate that it is both safe and appropriate to perform tonsil and adenoid surgery in the ambulatory setting. Furthermore, the current recommendation that patients remain under postoperative recovery room observation for 6 hours appears to be excessive. This observation period may be safely reduced to 4 hours.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.053
Threshold uncertainty score0.990

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.103
GPT teacher head0.326
Teacher spread0.223 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2003
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